Methodist Ministers: Allowed to Marry. Not Celibate
Baptist Ministers: Allowed to Marry. Not Celibate
Presbyterian Ministers: Allowed to Marry. Not Celibate
Episcopalian Ministers: Allowed to Marry. Not Celibate
Anglican Vicars: Allowed to Marry. Not Celibate
Lutheran Ministers: Allowed to Marry. Not Celibate
Mormon Elders: Allowed to Marry, preferably multiple times . Not Celibate. Yes, I'm making a dig at Mormons in the middle of a Catholic church post. I'm an equal opportunity offender.
Catholic Priests: Not Allowed To Marry. Celibate

Given that homosexuality is spread evenly across any given population, if homosexuality is the underlying cause of the rampant pedophilia within the church, then the same thing should be occuring within the other churches, as well as in the population as a whole. Yet it does not.

This is not to say that churches other than the Catholic church don't have sex scandals. They do. The Anglican church in particular has sex scandals. They're modeled pretty closely after the Catholic church, though, so maybe that shouldn't be surprising.

You could also make the point that if I searched in a different manner, I'd not have results as dramatic as those above. So let's remove the quotes that force a phrase to be searched on in Google, and just look for the association of words within the same article. *

The problem in the Catholic church is not homosexuality, but celibacy, and a culture of secrecy enforced by a corrupt hierarchy more concerned with power than the lives of their smallest parishoners.

*Note that the Google result numbers come from a specific moment in time. Your mileage will vary.

Update: Defender of the faith Jaime McDonald write in to take issue with my methodology.

You cite as proof that Catholic clergy are more likely to commit pedophilia or homosexual acts Google searches. The fact that you turn up more hits on "Catholic sex scandal" proves only that people put up more web pages about Catholic sex scandals. Anyone would concede that.

What are more relevant are the actual numbers of incidents, and even the Christian Science Monitor (article apparently not available online but describe and explicated at http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/comment-arroyo051602.asp) acknowledges that the proportion of incidents is higher with Protestant clergy.

An interesting study on the topic would be to compare the incidence of malfeasance of Catholic deacons, who can marry, and Catholic priests. Or Roman Catholic priests vs. Eastern Catholic Priests.

A Google search proves nothing about the nature of celibacy, and I hope you will correct your article or at least provide concrete evidence.

Fair enough, though I would hesitate to use the word "proof" in regards to the evidience offered in any of my posts, not just this one.

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